How true the story may be that the media of his day knew all about JFK’s philandering but chose not to report it, I have my doubts, but insofar as it is true, it suggests that there was once a sense of honor among journalists, as there is also said to be among thieves. To…
It was only a matter of time, I suppose. It took a while, to be sure, but Dana Milbank is on to us. And he’s hitting back hard. The Washington Post’s witty and urbane, almost Jon-Stewart-like hammer of the right-wing, who has lately moved from page 2 to the op-ed page, the better to roll up…
A frankly mendacious and distorted account of the life and innovations of the founder of Facebook — who may or may not care
How delightful, I thought, as I read the following passage, written by D.J. Taylor in yesterday’s Independent on Sunday of London: The rich have always had their defenders. You sometimes get the feeling that even when Our Lord was expounding the parable of Dives and Lazarus, there would have been somebody at hand to remark that…
For one in an occasional series inspired by the deaths of old soldiers and others who have accomplished honorable and important things in the world and so reminded us of what it is to live life well, I call your attention to the obituary in yesterday’s (London) Daily Telegraph of Captain Albert Peter “Mickie” O’Brien, M.C….
In today’s New York Times, Elisabeth Bumiller reports that the Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, in a speech at Duke University, expressed his concern at the gap between the country’s military forces and its people. “The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Gates said, are the first protracted large-scale conflicts since the American Revolution fought entirely by…
Believers or unbelievers: which are the more insufferable? — From The New Criterion of September, 2010
A favorite theme of American movies explored — from The American Spectator of September, 2010
Of all the arguments put forward by the advocates of admitting open homosexuals to the armed forces, some good, some bad, the weakest, it seems to me, is that the current “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” convention — it is rather a response to a law than the law itself, which still bans “homosexual behavior” —…
A very odd op ed in today’s New York Times by Ron Chernow, biographer of Alexander Hamilton, J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller among others, takes the tea partiers to task for invoking the Founders in their campaign against big government, big spending and high taxes. His point, made at quite unnecessary length, is in essence…
The lines in the sand are not yet re-drawn — From The Weekly Standard of September 20, 2010
